Where Italian and Croatian Cuisine Meet

Travel is tamped down for the time being, but I’m daydreaming in my kitchen — Spain, and especially Italy, tempt me. So off I go with a raft of unfamiliar recipes to try, thanks to “Friuli Food and Wine: Frasca Cooking from Northern Italy’s Mountains, Vineyards and Seaside.” Frasca cooking? Frasca is a restaurant in…

Let the Ramen Come to You

Yohei Ishida is not simply packing up his various ramens for pickup and delivery from his restaurant on the Lower East Side. He’s organized them into special kits designed for reheating at home. He offers two varieties, a black truffle shoyu ramen — with a soup base made with locally raised Bo Bo chickens —…

A Quince Paste by Request

Kitty Keller, the founder of the importer KL Keller Foodways, has a favorite French maker of pâte de fruits in Provence, François Doucet. Over a dinner at King, she persuaded him to make a paste she had been thinking of for years: quince (like the Spanish membrillo, often served with cheese) seasoned with espelette, a…

Slurp Oysters From the Eastern Seaboard

Like cheese makers, those who cultivate oysters along America’s coastlines have also felt the loss of restaurant business during the pandemic. Though it’s long been possible to order fresh oysters, shipped to your door, from some of these oyster farms, there are more to choose from now. (Oysters keep in the refrigerator, unopened, for more…

A Wine Getaway

For a way to get out of the house, you can now gather friends and family from your quarantine bubble and take a personal wine tour of the North Fork of Long Island or the Hudson Valley led by New York Wine Events. Open to groups of two to 12, the tour hits the road…

Airborne Coronavirus: What You Should Do Now

The coronavirus can stay aloft for hours in tiny droplets in stagnant air, infecting people as they inhale, mounting scientific evidence suggests. This risk is highest in crowded indoor spaces with poor ventilation, and may help explain super-spreading events reported in meatpacking plants, churches and restaurants. It’s unclear how often the virus is spread via…